My Mother’s Day dessert for Mom 2012: Lemon & Lime Mousse

Mother’s Day was last week and now I finally got time to post my Mother’s Day dessert.
I have been searching for something nice, yummy and fresh for a long time that was worth trying out.
Then I found this awesome recipe by Zoe Francois, she is such an inspiration and posts the best sweet treats ever, and I just knew this recipe had to be good!
Lemon and Lime Mousse, with strawberries. My mom loves strawberries and I just knew: this has to be it!

Seriously, mom loved the heart shaped strawberries…something so simple but with a lovely message!

2. Mix the cut strawberries, sugar and liqueur/syrup in a bowl or pitcher. Let the berries sit for at least 30 minutes, so they release some of their juices. Can be made a couple of hours in advance. I found a couple of bigger strawberries, sliced them thin and used a cookie cutter to cut out hearts – these came on top of the other sliced strawberries in the jars.

Here in Spain we celebrate Mother’s day first Sunday in may, so it was a week earlier ;) But I was in Paris, I’m afraid I couldn’t do anything for her. Although my mother doesn’t like sweet, never eat dessert, nor add a pinch of sugar in her coffee (no milk neither!!). So she would eat only the fresh strawberries :P

But… I can keep the recipe for myself, it’s perfect!! Very fresh dessert, and I’m a lover of the strawberry or raspberry and any type of citrus combination.

And the presentation in jugs, I really love that!! I have seen some tiramisú an triffles like that, and it’s so nice!!

It has been funny se the Monin syrup, here we have only a little flavours of it, so when I go to Germany or France I buy loooooooooooots of bottles :P If one they the register my suitcase, will think I’m crazy!!

Paula, so happy you commented. I love your comments, it is funny to get to know your mom a little bit, it is hard to understand that a lot of people do not like sweet things (coffee drinkers who drink their coffee just plain black for example) but we all have different tastes, right. So great you’ve been to Paris! Hope it was a fun trip! And yes, the Monin syrup is a winner over here, so many people use it although it is quite expensive.
Mil besos para ti, Paula…!!
niner :-)